Mr Corbyn said: “There’s a disturbing rise of the far right in Britain today. There’s a blame culture that goes on against minorities."

"I look upon the crisis that’s happening now in Calais as a humanitarian crisis.

“Let’s look at the desperation of those people. All the governments of Europe, instead of blaming each other and working out military solutions to the problem, should instead be looking at where the refugees come from in the first place.

“The victims of war that they are, all across the region, the desperate journeys they are making and the numbers that die along the way.

“There are more displaced people on this planet now than at any time during recorded history. Even more than at the end of the Second World War.

“Military solutions don’t bring long term peace. What we need is a humanitarian, intelligent, sensible, decent approach.

“It’s not simple, it’s not easy, but we don’t need the kind of abusive language that’s been used over the past few days towards these people.

“Let’s be human beings and have a humanitarian, decent approach.”

Mr Corbyn also outlined some of his other policies including scrapping student fees and removing the UK’s nuclear weapons programme Trident. He said he would ring-fence the money saved by scrapping trident to create highly-skilled engineering and manufacturing jobs.

The seasoned politician also took the opportunity to hit out at the way his campaign had been portrayed in the national media and by his opponents.

He said: “We haven’t got time, interest, inclination or energy to involve ourselves in personal abuse of anybody. I don’t care what people say, because I ain’t saying anything in return.

“We are sticking to the issues and the policies.”

Mr Corbyn has risen from outsider to become the bookies’ favourite to replace Ed Miliband and become party leader, in just a matter of weeks.

The other Labour leadership contenders are Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.